Learning objectives
The course aim to refine the philological and linguistica abilities gained by the student in the previous 3 years cycle. This should allow the student to be able to understand, analyze frenc and occitan medieval texts, and comment upon them in an european framework, according to the comparative approach of romance philology
Prerequisites
none
Course unit content
The oldest text in French and Occitan literature. After an Introduction on the origin of romance origins, the course will deal of the oldest text in frenc and occitan, namely the Strasbourg's oath and the Alba bilingue of Fleury, together with a linguistica analysis and stilistic commentary. Further bibliography al the link of Rialto: http://www.rialto.unina.it/testiorigini/Fleury/Fleury(Lazzerini).htm
Full programme
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Bibliography
I giuramenti di Strasburgo : testi e tradizione, a cura di Francesco Lo Monaco, Claudia Villa, Firenze, SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2009
Maria Luisa Meneghetti, Le origini delle letterature medievali romanze, Roma, Laterza, 1997
Origini romanze : lingue, testi antichi, letterature / Stefano Asperti, Roma, Viella, 2006
Teaching methods
Given the presumably poor number of students, the course will consist for the first half in front lesson, for the second half in seminar lessons where the student will be asked to cooperate in reading, translating and commenting the texts. The course will be accompanied by lessons about the reading directly from mss.
Assessment methods and criteria
The oral exam will test the abilities to translate and analyze an old frenc and occitan text. The questions will be of several kinds (the final note is a mean of each):
- comprehension test (of a text read in the course)
- philological and linguistical text on a specimen from a text of the course;
- test on historical knowledge (reference texts in the bibliography)
Other information
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